Apology Quotes - Page 13

• We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice.

  John Kador

  Practice, Abstract, Turns

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.5, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Believe, America, Special

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• I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

  Beth Revis

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Two

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• I don't even think you should tell the audience you're improvising. It's like an apology in case it's bad : 'we're just making it up' If the improv isn't better than the rehearsed stuff, then you should just rehearse it.

  Keith Johnstone

  Thinking, Stuff, Should

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• Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

  Colin Flaherty

  Writing, Race, Territory

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• An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.

  John Kador

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• I walked by a dry cleaner at 3 am, and there was a sign: "Sorry, we're closed" You don't have to be sorry, it's 3 am, and you're a dry cleaner! It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open! I'm not gonna walk in at 10 am and say "I walked by here at 3 and you were closed - somebody owes me an apology!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Sorry, Humor

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• We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.

  John Kador

  Loses

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and without apologies. He is what he is and that's all there's is to it. Such a man is undivided, uncomplicated and contented.

  Vernon Howard

  Spiritual, Men, Desire

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• Progress occurs one apology at a time.

  John Kador

  Progress

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.238, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

  Harriet Lerner

  Mother, Home, Ambition

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1993). “The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives”, Harpercollins

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Commitment, Essence, Giving

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

  Charles I of England

  May, Accused, Defence

  1636 Letter to Lord Wentworth, 3 Sep.

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• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Monday, Military, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Sick, Long

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• Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Real, Ambition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.387, Modern Library

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• An apology for America's values is never the right course.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Courses, Values

  "Mitt Romney: 'I Believe the Administration Was Wrong'". www.theatlantic.com. September 12, 2012.

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• The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sentences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.163, Harvard University Press

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• Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sides, Apologizing, Desperate

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• I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

  George Allen

  Lynching, Heartfelt, United States

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• I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Taught Us, Chinese

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• One of the most useful tasks of apology is to bring home to us how keenly, honestly, and painfully past generations pursued aims that now seem to us wrong and disgraceful. It behooves us to consider if future geenrations will similarly regard the aims we most defend today.

  John Kador

  Home, Past, Tasks

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• Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right.

  John Kador

  Practice, Needs, Extending

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.15, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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